Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enraged at this disrespectful treatment, His Majesty recalled his Minister, ordered the Iranian Legation in Washington and the Iranian Consulates in Manhattan and Chicago permanently closed (TIME, April 13 et ante). Last week the King of Kings was furious over "another French insult." Month ago L'Europe Nouvelle criticized the economic condition of Iran. The King of Kings demanded an apology, received one. A French columnist last week reopened the wound by rehearsing the incident under the punning headline // n'y avait pas la de quoi fouetter un Shah. This was a parody of the French phrase "There...
Delegate Edwards said that when the ruler prepared to marry his 301st wife, the others forced him to renounce this plan by abandoning the Shah en masse, seeking sanctuary in the British Legation. Red as a beet, Iranian Delegate Nasrollah Entezam demanded that this tale be expunged from the record...
Lectures will assume a distinctly cosmopolitan tinge. At the head of the list appears a Mr. Fathalla K. Moston, of Nebraska University and an "old Iranian family", who can come prepared to speak on the development of Iran from a Medieval to a Modern State, or on Mohammed and the Koran...
Divorce Revealed, Mrs. Doris Mercer Kresge, divorced wife of 5? & 10? Store-man Sebastian Spering Kresge, who claimed she wanted $10,000.000 to bear a child; and Iranian Prince Farid of Sadri-Azam, the Nezam-ed-Dowleh of Isfahan, whom she married in 1933; in Paris...
Accredited members of the diplomatic corps are allowed to bring into the U. S., duty free, "baggage and effects for personal use." Investigation could trace only 26 of the articles on sale to the Iranian Legation. Washington promptly telegraphed the customs office in New York to see how many more of these rugs and knickknacks had appeared on M. Ghods's original customs declaration...